Hello, dedicated reader. Happy New Lockdown, and I hope you had a very Merry Coupmas. What a cracking start to 2021. Here's a recipe for a citrus drizzle cake which you can either ignore, or make use of. It is lovely and *puts on Nigella Mask* Wonderfully Moist so if you have a spare 20 … Continue reading Citrus Drivel Cake
All good things in life start with puff pastry: sausage rolls, sausage rolls, and dictionaries written by shit lexicographers. But puff pastry is more versatile than just providing a jacket for mashed up bits of pig. Puff pastry is noble, clever, and fills any dips in serotonin you may be experiencing with its wondrous fat … Continue reading 10 naughty things to do with a pack of puff pastry
Lads lads lads. This soup is basically free if you play your cards right. Ok, maybe not free but like, a bonus meal that comes as a nice tasty surprise because you've previously thrown out your chicken bones and not used the massive woody stem of the broccoli, because GUESS WHAT those are the … Continue reading Zero Waste Chicken and Broccoli Soup
Rampant anthropomorphism aside, the general idea for this recipe is that it's a basic quick dinner which you customise according to what's in your house. Chicken thighs are cheap (I always buy reduced, yellow sticker ones due to savage internal guilt about food waste) and they have the best flavour and meat ratio out … Continue reading Baked Chicken Thighs Your Way
Darlings. It's taken me a long time to put fingers to keys again, and craft all you hungry people another entertaining recipe. This is for one reason in particular: I've actually been doing far too much cooking to even know where to begin in terms of writing things up. I don't know what's useful … Continue reading Lockdown Staple no. 1: Beautiful Sicilian Stew
Shalom, all. Bit of a long post today but I'm bored as hell and you're probably got nothing better to do so there we go. Suck it. Hope everyone's quarantine is going well, and no one is gnawing each others' fingers off due to boredom or hunger. In my current household, it's interesting to see … Continue reading Sweet Potato Fritters (and some waffle)
Has the boredom set in yet? The scenic route betwixt kitchen and bedroom wearing thin? Are you spending your days waiting til 5pm so you can crack open that beer? (Lewis certainly is, but then I would too if I had a thesis due in 3 weeks that I'd barely started). Well, if you're … Continue reading Milo’s Classy Espresso Martinis
Hello glorious quarantined friends. Hope you're all well and staying snugly inside, like the way the fleshy innards of a sweet pepper should never, ever see the light of day. Today's recipe involves the semantic cousin of the sweet pepper, the Aubergine, which is Very Similar because is a vegentable and it is softs. I … Continue reading Loopy’s Baked Gnocchi with Aubergines, Tomato and Mozzarella
I have a friend called Dan Wild, who, when you pour beer in him, becomes the best value entertainment in the whole of Edinburgh. During some heavily pub-based research about the budget meals my peer group actually cook, Dan told me, pint slopping everywhere, about his recipe for one-ingredient salami wraps. I laughed so hard … Continue reading Wild Dan’s Budget Salami Wraps
A note from the editor (hello, yes, that's me) In my last few posts, I've subtly hinted that y'all are welcome to send me in any recipes you feel to be worthy of Student Cuisine for the Gloomy Teen fame (which involves roughly 30-60 people on the internet reading them). One man has taken me … Continue reading James Kavanagh’s Satay Oh-thank-god-they-haven’t-run-out-of-Tofu Wraps
Student Cuisine for the Gloomy Teen 